Kitsap Briefs: Army's Dixon scores first college TD

Ex-Olympic High star also catches a pass for 25 yards in win over Tulane

Army's Larry Dixon, a freshman from Olympic High, rushed six times for 30 yards and a touchdown in a 45-6 win over Tulane.

Dixon's first-quarter TD on a 2-yard run put the Black Knights ahead after falling behind 6-0.

Dixon also had one catch for 25 yards. Army (2-3) is at Miami (Ohio) on Saturday.

Also

Linebacker Howie McDonald (jr., Central Kitsap) is second in tackles (22 solo, 21 assists) for Eastern Oregon (4-1), which lost 51-17 to Rocky Mountain College in a Frontier Conference game on Saturday in LaGrande, Ore. ... Receiver Leon La Deaux (fr., South Kitsap) has eight catches for 64 yards and two touchdowns for Central Washington (1-3). La Deaux had a 26-yard TD catch in a win over Simon Fraser on Saturday.

Miscellany

BASEBALL: Baseball America magazine named former Central Kitsap High School star Drew Vettleson the sixth-best major league prospect in the Appalachian League. Vettleson, who turned pro this summer after signing late as a first-round supplemental draft pick of Tampa Bay in 2010, hit .282 for the Rookie-class Princeton (W.Va.) Rays.

GOLF: Troy Kelly will tee it up in this week's Children's Hospital Classic in Chattanooga, Tenn. It's one of three tournaments left before the year-ending Nationwide Tour Championship at Daniel Island, S.C., on Oct.. 27-30. The Central Kitsap grad and ex-Washington Husky withdrew from the Soboba Classic in San Jacinto, Calif., two weeks ago because of an injury related to his hip-replacement surgery and didn't enter last week's tournament in Midland, Texas. He dropped two spots to No. 6 on the money list ($242,202). Ex-Washington Husky Richard Lee is No. 27 on the money list ($133,703). The Top 25 earn PGA Tour cards for 2012.